Morning Waffles & Watching Friends

This morning, she was hungry but she insisted on going outside with her friends.... we compromised by having waffles outside. While there, she so beautifully focused on watching her friends running through the yard, giggling and playing. She sat patiently eating her waffle, dropping it, picking it up again, until she finished eating. Then she was ready to play!

"We cannot know the consequences of suppressing a child's spontaneity when he is just beginning to be active. We may even suffocate life itself. That humanity which is revealed in all its intellectual splendor during the sweet and tender age of childhood should be respected with a kind of religious veneration. It is like the sun which appears at dawn or a flower just beginning to bloom. Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life."

-Maria Montessori